Chess Master Bobby Fischer Dead at 64

[Zapurdead]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gZKsZzlfUKLK8IUCthGuEGnnwvuQD8U8G7AG0
Such a shame.

[stickdude237]

I have to make the joke, I know, have respect for the dead, but I can't resist quoting the SNL Spartan Cheerleader's song "Where's Bobby Fischer, I dunno I dunno!"

[JDitto]

Yeah, I saw the movie (Searching for Bobby Fischer), but seriously, the stuff he's done recently were just giving a bad name for chess.

Does anyone here actually play chess?

[Solean]

Wait, he rails against jews and the japanese, while his mother was jewish and his wife japanese?

[Joest]

Wait, he rails against jews and the japanese, while his mother was jewish and his wife japanese?He's a nut. You can't reason with the stuff that he does.

Anywho, big deal. I have respect for him as a chess player, but not as a person.

[n3xus]

bobby fischer was a genius, he just wasnt successful or very rich

[Tanktunker]

He was a nut.
He was an antisemite, and a loon.
Why is this a shame?

[Chimpy]

He was a nut.
He was an antisemite, and a loon.
Why is this a shame?

Because he was probably the greatest chess player the world has ever seen so far?

People will miss him for his chess, not his personality.

Of course, he may well have been a nut, but that doesn't change the fact he was a genius at chess.

[Zapurdead]

Yeah, I saw the movie (Searching for Bobby Fischer), but seriously, the stuff he's done recently were just giving a bad name for chess.

Does anyone here actually play chess?
Me.